Dr. Donald Tricarico: Professor, Social Sciences

Carolyn Raphael taught for more than three decades in the English department at Queensborough Community College. She is the author of two college textbooks, published by Macmillan: Rhetorical Reader for ESL Writers (1983, with Elaine Goran Newman) and The Writing Reader (1986). She edited, with Lawrence J. Raphael and Miriam R. Valdovinos, Language and Cognition, Plenum Press (1984). Her poems have appeared in journals including Cumberland Poetry Review, Measure, Orbis, Pivot, and Rattapallax. Diagrams of Bittersweet, a chapbook, was published in 1997 by Somers Rocks Press. Her new collection, The Most Beautiful Room in the World, was published in February 2010, by David Robert Books.

Danielle B. Izzo has been working at Queenborough Community College since 2005 advising students in the ASAP Program and facilitating reading an writing workshops for the Basic Skills department. She earned her Bachelor's degree Magna cum Laude from the Honor's Program at St. John's University. In the summer of 2008, she completed Naropa University's Summer Writing Program focusing on the post-modern beat and feminist-aesthetic. Danielle was awarded, as a member of the Golden Key Honor Society, her Master's degree in English Literature from Queens College with her culminating project focusing on Jacques Lacan's interpretation of the feminine. She has been published in various literary journals and is working on her first book of poetry entitled Idol Banter.

David Rothman is an ESL specialist and a full-time faculty member in the Department of Basic Skills. He began his career as a writer composing poetry under birch trees, until one day a hummingbird on a branch overheard and whispered down, "Your verses are mediocre at best. Try fiction. You'll be much better at it." David recently won a short story prize from Glimmer Train for his piece, "Guided by Voices," which will be published later this year. He has also had short works of fiction published in the Nassau Review and The Prague Review. He is currently working on developing 'Guided by Voices' into a full-length novel.

Richard Tayson's second book of poetry is The World Underneath (Kent State University Press, 2008). His first book of poetry, The Apprentice of Fever (Kent State University Press, 1998), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Tayson's other awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Prarie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, and a Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in over fifty publications in five countries, including the Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review and American Poetry: The Next Generation. His coauthored book of non-fiction, Look Up for Yes (Viking-Penguin, 1998), appeared on bestseller lists in Germany, and has been included in Reader's Digest's Today's Best Nonfiction in the United States and Australia. Tayson is current a Chancellor's Fellow in the Ph.D. program in English at City University of New York's Graduate Center.

John Duncan Talbird was a recent residential writer at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Jabberwock Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Sycamore Review, and Red Rock Review among others. He is on the editorial board of Green Hills Literary Lantern and a frequent contributor to Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is an English professor at Queensborough Community College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the artist Melinda Yale, and their orange cat, Harold.

Dr. Megan Elias, historian and author of several books, addressed the emerging field of food history in America, specifically the meal known as lunch.

Dan Brown? The Lost Symbol?

Masonic cipher? Albrecht Durers magic square?

If you know about these things AND you can decipher the message below,

then dont bother coming because you know as much as I do.

If you dont know about them OR you cant decipher the message below,

then by all means come and hear my presentation.

Yes, we do have pizza.

Ed Brumgnach

BETH COUNIHAN is an associate Professor in the english depart- ment at Queensborough and has been at the Q since fall 2001. she is the editor-in-chief of QueensZine, the colleges online interdisciplin- ary journal of arts and ideas.

Dr. David M. Sarno, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Queensborough Community College, was selected by The City University of New York (CUNY), to appear in a web video to discuss his research in the area of Nanoscience.